Some Takes on Donald Trump's Misogyny and the Threats He Poses

I. Donald Trump's Misogyny Defined
1.) "We picked a President whose ex-wife once testified that he ripped out her hair and raped her, a man who's been accused of sexual assault and misconduct by almost two dozen women, a man whose own words corroborate his accuser's claims." (Jia Tolentino, in the November 21, 2016 The New Yorker.)

2.) "Trump's descriptions and treatment of women didn't seem to bother them." One woman told the reporter, Peter Hessler: "I'm a strong enough woman." Hessler writes that he "often heard similar comments from female Trump supporters -- in their eyes, it was a show of strength to ignore the candidate's crudeness and transgressions, because only the weak would react with outrage." (Peter Hessler in the November 21, 2016 The New Yorker.)

There are at least two problems with this approach: a.) a number of strong women did come out to no discernible effect; and b.) a number of women are afraid to come out, because they will not be believed or even savagely attacked.

3.) A woman named Reem Razek said: "When I saw the women who were defending him after the pussy-grabbing comments, it reminded me so much of the women in the Muslim Brotherhood who'd defend bad things that the Brotherhood guys did. They'd say, 'Men and women are different, and we have to accept that we're the weaker sex." "I think a lot of women struggle with the Stockholm-syndrome thing." ( In the November 21, 2016 The New Yorker.)

4.) "There are dozens of reasons why Trump won, but misogyny was a big part of it." "As "Vok" reported, one of the biggest predictors of Trump support was 'hostile sexism...'" "Those white women, like the rest of us, now live in a country where the public humiliation of women has the White House seal of approval." "Repressing women in the name of purifying a decadent culture is always part of the package, as it was in the fascist states of the 1930s."  (Katha Pollitt, in the December 5/12, 2016 The Nation.)

II. Some Foreign Policy and Domestic Threats Trump Poses
1.) A recruitment video released in January by Al Shabaab, the East African militant group allied with Al Qaeda, showed Trump calling for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.: the video warned, "Tomorrow, it will be a land of religious discrimination and concentration camps."

2.) A Gift to Iran
Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has called Trump's vow to kill the Iran nuclear deal "a gift to Iran." "The hard-line forces in Iran are looking for a way in which this deal can unravel, but they won't be blamed for it." "This would be their ideal solution.The Iranians would say, 'You've abrogated your end , so we're going to reconstitute our nuclear program.'"

3.) The Economist Intelligence Unit, an economic-and-geopolitical-analysis firm, has ranked the prospect of a Trump victory on its top-ten risks to the global economy.

4.) Anthony Karydakis, the chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak, an asset manager, has warned that a Trump victory is now generally regarded as "a major destabilizing development for financial markets." Karydakis added: "If he ever even alludes to renegotiating the debt, we will have a downgrade of U.S. debt, and that event will cause a massive exodus of foreign investors from the U.S. Treasury market."

5.) The American Action Forum, a conservative Washington think tank, ran budget projections of Trump's plan: raids on farms, restaurants, factories, and construction sites would require more than ninety thousand"'apprehension personnel" -- six times the number of special agents in the F.B.I. Beds for captured men, women and children would reach 348,831, nearly triple the detention space required for the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War.

The report estimated the total cost at six hundred billion dollars, which it judged financially imprudent.